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With passwords so vulnerable to compromise, there is a never-ending search for the best authentication method. Biometrics gets discussed a lot as a secure and logical login option because, theoretically, no one should be able to reproduce your retina … Continue reading Does Your Biometric and Behavioral Biometric Data Meet Data Privacy Compliances?
Police in the UK were able to read a fingerprint from a photo of a hand: Staff from the unit’s specialist imaging team were able to enhance a picture of a hand holding a number of tablets, which was taken from a mobile phone, before fingerprint experts were able to positively identify that the hand was that of Elliott Morris…. Continue reading Lifting a Fingerprint from a Photo
Enhanced social media images of the man’s fingers led to the takedown of 11 members of a drug ring and his sentencing. Continue reading WhatsApp image showing drug dealer’s fingerprints leads to arrest
Yet another reason to forgo taking pictures when you break the law. Continue reading Cops Got a Drug Dealer’s Fingerprints From Photos of His Hand on WhatsApp
It’s routine for US police to unlock iPhones with the fingerprints of dead people. It seems only to work with recently dead people…. Continue reading Unlocking iPhones with Dead People’s Fingerprints
In this era of electronic leakers, remember that zero-width spaces and homoglyph substitution can fingerprint individual instances of files….
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In this era of electronic leakers, remember that zero-width spaces and homoglyph substitution can fingerprint individual instances of files…. Continue reading Fingerprinting Digital Documents
Embedded in this story about infidelity and a mid-flight altercation, there’s an interesting security tidbit: The woman had unlocked her husband’s phone using his thumb impression when he was sleeping……
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Embedded in this story about infidelity and a mid-flight altercation, there’s an interesting security tidbit: The woman had unlocked her husband’s phone using his thumb impression when he was sleeping…… Continue reading Hacking a Fingerprint Biometric
This is a pilot project in Australia: Individuals who have shared intimate, nude or sexual images with partners and are worried that the partner (or ex-partner) might distribute them without their consent can use Messenger to send the images to be “hashed.” This means that the company converts the image into a unique digital fingerprint that can be used to…
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